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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the Coughlin controversy, I would suggest that you censor the stuff of the Hebrew and Left Wing members of your staff closely, as nobody is more vindictive than a single track Communist when someone tells the truth about their great & noble cause. For years all Communists have been rabid Coughlin haters and for good reason as nobody has done a better job of throwing the light of truth on these Christ haters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...before the candle fumes were cleared, the Boston musicians returned in white pea jackets, and were on their way to town with Composer Louis Gruenberg's modernistic jazz score, Daniel Jazz. The result was hardly enough to shake a Brahmin into a shag, but it was pretty hot stuff for the Boston Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Farewell Symphony | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would be unsafe to continue. . . . I believe that our policyholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...improving in technique and this match should be an opportunity for him to show his ability. In the 136-pound class, George Richter has to face James Holt. By virtue of his experience he stands the favorite. His last match deserves particular attention if Ric really shows his best stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers to Battle Columbia Today Given Slight Edge Over Invaders | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese the art of music is distinctly old stuff. In 2600 B. C., when the skin-clad savages of Europe were tootling shinbone flutes and walloping tomtoms, China's cultured Emperor Huang-ti established a standard scale for all China's musical instruments. When the T'ang Dynasty passed out in 907 A. D., Chinese music declined somewhat. But cultivated Chinese have always regarded music as one of China's most important arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chinese Music | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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